Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 3
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with revising writing by having students read and revise a passage to reduce redundancy and wordiness.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language
This tutorial focuses on concise language by eliminating empty phrases and redundant words. It offers a video showing poor communication due to redundancy and a slide show which lists common empty phrases and provides an exercise to help...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language
This tutorial focuses on writing more concisely and editing your text to make it more concise. It offers a slide show that presents 5 editing techniques and examples of each, and a video lesson of how to write summaries and how to write...
Stanford University
Stanford Ency. Phiosophy: Deflationary Theory of Truth
Sophisticated presentation from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of a variety of deflationary theories of truth. Begins with a simple explanation and examples, but soon enlists somewhat technical language to explain subtler...
Other
Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy: Lesson 4
This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Stating the Obvious: Lesson 3
This lesson goes over removing obvious information. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Concise Language: Stating the Obvious."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy
This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper to remove extraneous information.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy."